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I have chosen to read The Household Guide to Dying: A Novel About Life by Debra Adelaide.

Here's the synopsis from Amazon:

Domestic advice columnist Delia is terminally ill, but she has a few loose ends she'd like to wrap up before cancer takes her from her husband and two daughters in Australian novelist Adelaide's ho-hum latest. Though Delia makes lists that encompass everything from the morning routine to planning her daughters' weddings, hoping to control what will come after she is gone, much of what is on her mind is her distant past in the small town of Amethyst, where she lived after she left home at 17 to raise her firstborn. Adelaide metes that portion out slowly, and readers will have figured out the twists long before she gets there. What Delia faces and remembers about her time in Amethyst leaves her better able to face gracefully her own imminent departure, which she chronicles in an advice book. That project leads to some off-kilter scenes (such as Delia observing an autopsy and casket shopping).

It's very different from that which I am used to, but I am hoping it comes out to be an enjoyable book. It caught my eye because I just joined listography.com after seeing the Listography Journal: Your Life in Lists at the book store this weekend. That seems like a very interesting journal, and I think I am going to pick up a copy when payday comes. Wreck This Journal on Amazon looks interesting as well, I may see if they have it at the book store.

Ok off to get started, I will post some opinions later this evening after I have read some of the book.